Overview
- Officers were called to Carron Street in Fenton at about 3:20pm following reports of a man acting suspiciously with a possible handgun.
- Firearms units detained a 26-year-old Stoke-on-Trent man at the scene and he was taken into custody on suspicion of weapons offences.
- Police recovered an air pistol along with a knife and a hatchet during the response.
- Co-op Academy Clarice Cliff enacted a precautionary lockdown from roughly 3:10pm to 3:50pm before issuing the all-clear to parents.
- Staffordshire Police are maintaining reassurance patrols and urging anyone with CCTV, dashcam or doorbell footage to come forward, quoting incident 494 of February 5.